Thursday, July 12, 2012

"When you're lost in the woods, it sometimes takes you awhile to realize that you are lost. For

the longest time, you can convince yourself that you've just wandered off the path, that you'll find your way back to the trail head any moment now. Then night falls again and again, and you still have no idea where you are, and it's difficult to admit that you have bewildered yourself so far off the path that you don't even know from which direction the sun rises anymore." Elizabeth Gilbert

image by Donna Watson, Osaka Japan

"It may be that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings."

Wendell Berry

image by Donna Watson, Kyoto Japan

"This is your road. Only you will take it. And there's no turning back."

Olav H. Hauge

image by Donna Watson, Kyoto Japan

"It may be that when we no longer know what to do,

we have come to our real work

and when we no longer know which way to go,

we have begun our real journey."

Wendell Berry

image by Donna Watson, Kyoto Japan

"You see, I want a lot.

Perhaps I want everything:

the darkness that comes with every infinite fall

and the shivering blaze of every step up."

Rilke

image by Donna Watson, Nara Japan

"Will you rewalk that path with the stone lanterns

over and over again in dreams?

and wake to walk

the path you've created in your own temple?"

Nancy Neva Gagliano

image by Donna Watson, Kyoto Japan

What we call the beginning is often the end

And to make an end is to make a beginning.

The end is where we start from.

T. S. Eliot

"Every moment in your life is a turning and everyone a choosing. Somewhere you made a choice. All followed to this." -- Cormac McCarthy